skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your answer to the question, is nuclear war inevitable?

If it is, making weapons that are as clean as possible is a reasonable goal. If you get some knowledge that's applicable elsewhere, that's a nice bonus.

If you don't think it's inevitable, you can likely justify making them cleaner because it will likely have applications elsewhere by the logic of fusion weapons being the only place we've been able to harvest usable energy thusfar.
What? Where are those? I thought support forms, LLM based or not, are designed to never put you in touch with a human.
Is there any market or sector that PE hasn’t made worse?
If it's AWS there's basically nothing like this available as default. There are transcoding services and edge functions but you need to set them up yourself.
And prototypejs before jquery!
> Smart thermostat features require ongoing support. You aren't entitled to the labor

That’s a complete fabrication!

I have a laptop from 1999 and it still runs, and it’s smarter than any thermostat. You / they chose to build it in such a way that it requires ongoing labour. That’s on them. They could build it using open standards and connect it to home assistant, and then it would not require labour.

Simply put, they want to have complete control and no responsibility - and they feel entitled to my money.
I tried using Claude and ChatGPT like this: I would just write a free form journal entry. The feedback it gave was typically very useful and made journaling more rewarding.
I'm not affiliated but a cloud file service from someone like backblaze may interest you
Guess there is a GPU issue? China cannot get them and cannot make them yet? So training at least will not match OpenAI any time soon.
I think it is less the direction and more the pre-existing contract.

Nobody batts an eye if a tenant offers to fix the sink for $100. If the tenant offers not to break the sink for $100, that is entirely different.
Well I think for as amazing as this technology is, we probably don’t need it in a cellphone.
Aside from the extra load (and long requests, which is a bigger factor for non-async app servers), you need to take into account the physical location of your app servers. Depending on where the user is, there can be drastic differences in performance uploading to, say, us-east-1 vs ap-southeast-1. With S3, you can enable transfer acceleration so that the user uploads to whichever is their nearest region and then AWS handles it from there. This can give huge speedups.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40258279
Spotify's shuffle algorithm can't be changed easily because too many people rely on its existing quirks. Which means that Spotify's ability to keep it at a reliably stable level of unreliability for so long, through so many other platform changes, makes it a prime example of why Spotify is a perfect choice for enterprise! ;)
fr easy aply is so dogshit, most of these parsers for your cv can't handle the most basic shit, with my limited knowledge dealing with headless browsing with phantomjs I could come up with a better solution in an afternoon easily. Sorry but using a parser that can't even read experiences or education section to easy in a >10k+ tech company that does software is just not bearable.
> where did we go wrong...

Developers like to treat all problems as technical problems. And human problems with incompatible incentives typically don't have a technical solution.

Failure to understand this and to develop relevant soft skills is what's causing frustration for a lot of (very talented otherwise) devs.
Future food boom protects against early-life adversity on lifespan in squirrels
My personal email is in my bio. Or you can do my first name @pomelocare.com

I'm not the hiring manager or anything but I can try to answer your questions.
Ask HN: Web framework for custom character sheets?
I'm making a TTRPG, and the skill system involves lots of synergy hierarchies, and interactions. It involves rules that are easy to express in code, but just complicated enough that Excel is very cumbersome. Add to that Excel doesn't have a "roll this check" functionality.

Is there a JS lib or Django-like stack for building something that would serve as a character sheet builder?

I'd like to avoid Roll20 based on their junk mapping utils.
making all the landing page text lowercase to fully commit to the brand name is my suggestion
> And when the boiler went in the base of one of the place I rented, the landlord had to have it replaced. That type of thing, major expenses, is some of the risk that landlords take on in exchange for collecting rent.

Boilers go out. That's expected. It's predictable.

The only risk involved is landlord-created risk, playing Russian roulette with the boiler, hoping it won't fail yet because that means earing more money now and not spending it on upkeep yet.
Amazing work, feels like a step forward for LLM usability.

Would be interesting if there was a web browser that managed the download/install of models so you could go to a site like this, or any other LLM site/app and it detects whether or not you have models, similar to detecting if you have a webcam or mic for a video call. The user can click "Allow" to allow use of GPU and allow running of models in the background.
State Farm announces major change affecting tens of thousands households in CA
people who are using DataDog, how does it compare to DataDog service catalogs? If I want to use Backstage what kind of value add it provides over observability tools with cataloging tools?
Erlang is a pretty simple language too.
Aren’t there enough frameworks available to avoid Webpack? Seems pretty low level for app developers these days.

I’ve done Webpack configurations and Browserify before that. I’ll be glad if I never go there again.
Why is this surprising? I feel like some pompous scientists 800 years ago decided that inspects and other animals don’t have consciousness to establish human superiority and prove that god exists (as they were forced to back then).

Living beings are conscious, that includes animals we eat for and inspects we kill.
> The paper's comment on this is: "The selection of anchors is based on the general popularity of the codecs and the availability of the software implementations. We only intended to use codecs which are standardized internationally."

how very convenient, looks like politics outweigh any benchmarking

I have no game in the matter, but as a large website provider perspective, handling millions of images and processing thousands per day, I am glad not to have to deal with yet another format that would double our cache costs and force eternal support on the web. Not everybody has infinite google money to afford any kind of image format existing on the planet, and google can get only so much leeway after poisoning the web with webp.

j2c
Huy Fong Foods halts production. Is another sriracha shortage coming?
> the dreaded `any`

You're dreading javascript
10x Faster Climate Models
Conway's IRIS and the windscreen wiper theorem
> Calculator dependence created a ceiling built from "educational debt" that many years later severely limited my mathematical ability.

Can you explain how your problems with arithmetic affected your ability to reason and prove things? I struggle to see how the two are connected.
Eh, you can constructively critique things without spending tons of effort on fixing it.

What a painful and unpleasant conversation this is turning out to be.
I think I’d crawl and moo in an interview if my future direct manager did it first. If it’s so important then they shouldn’t have a problem doing it. I would mostly do it for the story of telling someone I did.
test+test@example.com is a perfectly cromulent email address.
I'm glad you know it, but elsewhere on this site I was just talking to someone who proudly knows very little about programming.

The distinction here is actually very important to a few people (eg the people who run LavaRand at CloudFlare), although it doesn't matter to many.
You can use branded types for the first case.
Following a similar stack, has anyone found success handling iPhone HDR and Live Photos? Both seem to give issues to standard HTML formats. I believe we’re using an AWS service to convert videos to various qualities (maybe Elastic Transcoder or Media Convert), and those iPhone video formats causes the service to error out.
Historical linguistics is based on the analysis and comparison of written documents and existing languages (so-called "attested languages"). Past languages are infered either from different languages (comparative) or from a single language (internal). All of this is already very speculative and likely wrong most of the time, especially when internal, but at least you can discover some patterns.

What you can't do with linguistics, is infer the existence of stories in the past just because they exist in the present. Language just does not have this kind of data stored.

Let's say 4000 year's ago some guy told a fairy tale about a wolf and someone else wrote it on some kind of paper-like material. Then the people died and the paper got destroyed. At some point the entire culture of this guy disappeared, and only the basic language survived into a new culture. So how do you figure out today that a certain story existed back then? Short answer, you can't. We don't even know that the entire culture existed, let alone a story within that culture.
Nice, I can't understand their growth potential could be like infinite they operate in the right space and have the right tech and fill in a nice niche. But C-suite and shareholders dividends need to be maximalized and engineeres enslaved I guess. Man I love latestage capitalism /s.
There’s a company in the monthly hiring thread this month that does the same, but it’s a constant live stream and you’re not allows to look away from the camera or move from your desk
I have to say this user agreement sounds like TikTok privacy policy, but my oh my! The government does its job. RESPECT.
No, the OP was not sent any harassment, the OP _did_ the harassment as it can be seen in the tweets. I mean, they are right there, just click on the links you shared. One of the OP's followers even openly called for the assassination of the project maintainer, and you have the galls to defend him? This is truly deranged stuff.

And again, there is no "vulnerability", there is simply a person that doesn't know how Linux works and has learned something new. Which again it's fine, nobody knows everything and we all learn new things everyday, it's just that normal and sensible people don't use that to make grand claims on social media and start harassment campaigns culminating in death threats.

Professional security researchers responsibly report real issues using the appropriate channels, such as defined at: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/security/policy this is not the work of a researcher, this is a grifter looking for self-promotion on social media.
That already exists on the BCH chain with CashFusion: https://cashfusion.org/faqs/
Text Prompt to SVG
It’s how people write code for the web with Python. Substitute Flask if you like.

People who are new to PHP and want to learn how to use MySQL will search for “PHP MySQL tutorial” and they will find insecure garbage.

The fact that you can find good tutorials does not negate the fact that people do find terrible ones.
+1. Costa Rica is a common immigration destination within the region because of its stability.
Have you tried Obsidian? It's a very bare-bones note taking app with a great plugin ecosystem. It has been my go-to for quite sometime now.
Prices for flights are too low; if we price in the effects they would be much higher. Still can fly to places in Europe for 5-20 euros; that cannot work. Everyone knows this but it’s just to stimulate tourism etc; who is picking up that bill though? Currently we all are, vacationing or not on the cheap, in a worse future.
But I didn't forget the third strict parameter, because I'm diligent in reading documentation and at my job.

Was that everything? You basically state there's a problem because you didn't use the function correctly and language didn't fall head over heels to stop you from doing silly things due to slopiness?

P.I.C.N.I.C.
Motion (YC W20) is hiring senior software engineers
https://www.qownnotes.org
Yes, Ronnie Wood played in the Stones in the same age.
Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
Do landlords pay tenants to leave outside of SF?

I’ve never heard this before I moved to SF and I believe the pro tenant legislation is the cause.
It's also administered orally.
The difficulty with "clean fusion bombs" is that bomb makers can always increase the yield of a fusion bomb by making it dirty. Fusion releases neutrons, and these neutrons have enough energy to fission the common 238 isotope of uranium, which releases roughly 100 times more energy than than the neutron started with.
They realy are to rich if shit lile this flys, but I guess they realy just made way to much money in the high economical times.
Don’t they?

Artists set too low of prices because they don’t want to be thought of as greedy. Scalpers expose the true market rate of the goods.
Your criticism is all correct, in the sense that I haven't pinned down what I mean well enough to avoid it. Unfortunately, I mean by "subjective experience" is ineffable. And the reason it's ineffable is also ineffable. It's something you can only understand if you have it and introspect on it. So you're entirely correct that this sequence of words isn't a valid definition, because there isn't one.

5) It may be a function of the past, just not one that can be given a mathematical definition. I should have said "defined" rather than "described".
The bystander's role is changing in the era of livestreaming
I interviewed with a company a few years back claiming something unique and asking me to sign an NDA to interview. I told them that no, they are not unique and Dragon basically owns this space since the 90s. Because it's damned good.
looks straight out of Control (the game)

<They/We must persist/fight back until net power/control is achieved>
Another problem with LLVM I’ve heard about is that it’s intermediate language or API or something is a moving, informally-specified target. People who know LLVM internals might weigh in on that claim. If true, it’s actually easier to target C or a subset of Rust just because it’s static and well-understood.

Two projects sought to mitigate these issues by going in different directions. One was a compiler backend that aimed to be easy to learn with well-specified IL. The other aimed to formalize LLVM’s IL.

http://c9x.me/compile/

https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2

There have also been typed, assembly languages to support verification from groups like FLINT. One can also compile language-specific analysis with a certified to LLVM IL compiler. Integrating pieces from different languages can have risks. That (IIRC) is being mitigated by people doing secure, abstract compilation.
Take with a grain of salt, but if Robert Sepehr's videos have any truth to them then the history and traditions which interweave from that time and place are rich and far reaching.

Sepehr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xf4FOpS1rU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBkgI34mMH0

NOT Sepehr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI8rXPalMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcMUBpC4leM

(Do your due dilligence!)
Good point, I appreciate the nuance. I guess I meant that I no longer have a blanket anti stance, and now I'm open to asessing more openly
It’s more likely discussion similar to this that people get tired of. And I include my own comment in that statement
> In my experience, GC'd languages leak much more frequently because people figure 'oh, the GC will take care of it for me.'

"Frequent memory leaks" has never happened to me in 20 years of programming in GC'd languages.

> There are excellent tools for detecting memory leaks/safety issues in C

A process you don't even need in GC'd languages. I think I've had maybe a couple of non-critical leaks in those 20 years due to finalizer bugs.

> also, half the costs I listed were related to performance. How the fuck do you justify the statement that those apply to C?

The vast majority of performance issues are related to algorithmic choices. With the right choice of algorithms and data structures, any language will likely get within a constant factor of C.

Sometimes that constant factor matters, most often it does not given the added costs of eliminating that constant factor, eg. in dev time and risk of introducing bugs or security vulnerabilities. And even where it does matter, you're almost certainly better off writing the performance critical kernel in C and then calling into it from a higher level language, as is common in machine learning.
The engineering hall statue! Thank you for posting your comment. I thought it was an abstract sculpture trying look "engineery". But it's a realistic representation of a cultural wound, and it is a warning.

https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Kids...
They wanted to add AI to our job requests to "attract talent". They did, and all "talent" meant was 600 "ai" resumes.
Tyson Foods Is Dumping Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into American Waterways
Of course you’ve now effectively circled back to the early 1980s at some level when there was not a lot of expectation that college freshmen had touched a computer much less were proficient even if the wanted major in CS/EE.
It's true; they make UI changes that no one wants (like pushing the queue off to a sidebar that can't be expanded to the way it used to be), constantly try to push features I don't want (some weird "DJ" feature that has an actual programmed voice between songs, "collaborative" playlists when I pretty much exclusively listen alone with headphones), and refuse to implement extraordinarily simple features that would be universally popular (like being able to mark certain songs/artists as "don't ever play this for me please"), and yet the few other players in the space all have similarly mediocre products that give me no real choice. This is peak enterprise UX.
There’s no evidence that ride services make money and are in high demand? Someone better tell Lyft and Uber so they can close shop
What's wrong with RSS?
Yup, Trump would have likely not won in 2016 if he wasn't pushed by the media. I remember the media would not cover Bernie, even when he got big crowds. But the media would wait for Trump to take the stage, showing empty podium live. ALL media (mainstream or social or legacy) know to push controversy, negativity etc because it gets them engagement which gets them dollars. It is also easy and lazy thing to do.

There is a reason politicians push "the other guy is bad" rather than "I am good" narrative in their ads. It works short term at least while doing long term damage
They should just be ubiquitous OS daemons at this point. They’re clearly very valuable
I'm baffled why you'd name your product in a way that conflicts with a heavily used front end tool.
But userv requires code to be written specifically to work with userv, even for seemingly simple tasks as reading files.

See 6.6 Error handling and input streams (eg stdin) on https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/spec.html/ch-n...

systemd's run0 on the other hand doesn't require code to be written specifically to work with it.
Good graphing and calendaring controls would be amazing and useful.

We still resort to JS for that stuff

We could probably hack together something that outputs direct SVG when given data and chart details
Ive watched a couple of botched attempts at implementing it and just like with other spotify fads you need to be all in or not at all. Also im highly sceptical it is actually going to “break your silos” or whatever they are promising because silos usually come from the management and the culture not the type of idp management happened to cargo cult on you
I am just waiting untill do the same to you, like remove ‘unlock your car’ function from the app.

And when you complain that your £50,000 vehicle became useless, they will tell you ‘we removed it from the app, and you never paid for it’
It was obvious these bad times would come for Tesla. Without Musk it would have never come because there would have been nothing like Tesla in its current form. Now that it's happening, of course the reasonable question is can they navigate the murky waters? Is Tesla strong enough to survive? The article asks, why didn't Musk spin off the supercharging company instead of firing everyone? The article also answers its own question by saying supercharging is a huge money sink and less important now that other companies are building out supercharging networks with reciprocal agreements back to Tesla. Making the charging port a standard was pretty smart in retrospect. But we all know standards are incredibly useful to incumbents. Musk and his teams made Tesla into an incumbent from scratch. Now can they stay alive when the era of cheap money is over?
I'm never gonna have my non-tech friend do any of this when they can just go to chat.openai.com and call it a day.

Most people value convenience at the expense of almost everything else when it comes to technology.
You have to consider the time value of money. 19K invested in stock market in 1978 would be over 1 million dollars today, maybe 2 million if you include the taxes paid since purchase.
In 2024 post-capitalist America the prospect of someone addressing your problem in three days sounds downright instantaneous.
> Duck typing can lead to a false sense of security when you /think/ you have Foo when in reality you have Bar with the same shape.

This is literally always your problem with javascript, its only sometimes your problem with typescript. It's a weird argument.

> Also Typescript sucks at keeping track of type changes in a single scope.

Isn't this considered a very bad practice? Also rust does not allow this, it only allows shadowing.

> Combined with typescript's lack of statements as values, conditionally initializing a value is pretty obtuse.

Can you give an example?
My guess is that they are trying to vacuum as much information as possible. It is easy to do ("I can do nothing, the client is asking for the high school scores, not me!"). Who knows what they are doing with that data
I think these days you'd have to deploy an NSFW detector model. And you'd have to silently reject the upload* and limit profile picture change rate, else the attacker could use the endpoint as an oracle to build an adversarial model, which can eventually generate inputs that the detector won't flag.

*: act as if successful, including processing time, but throw away the upload
Must be quilt by association
What's bad about PostHog? I haven't tried but I thought it looks good
What’s wrong with PostHog? Do you mean Postman?
I addressed this in my comment.
With the kind of stakes involved for Apple, they are okay expending a bit of goodwill.
I could see sodium ion being a good use case for cars even.

I just did a little perplexity search and it seems that lithium ion is maybe 50% more energy dense than sodium ion. So instead of a 300 mile car, I could get a 200 mile car that can charge 10 times faster, and has a longer lifespan battery. That’s a trade off that doesn’t sound bad to me
Your intuition about screen fragility is right. I recently switched from a Samsung Flip 4 to a non-folding Pixel 8. While I liked the idea of it, in practice it was pretty chunky (twice the thickness of a normal phone when folded, too tall for my pockets when unfolded), and I damaged the screen twice in a year via normal use.